186 ornithologist's text-book. 



the two first volumes. We are glad to find Gould's 

 Birds of Europe frequently referred to with high 

 commendation. The third volume of the Manuel 

 $ Ornitliologie appeared in the spring of last year, 

 and even since that time, several new European 

 species have been characterised by our own zealous 

 and indefatigable Ornithologist, Gould. The pre- 

 sent volume treats of land birds, and we understand 

 that a fourth and last, including the water birds, is 

 in preparation. The " Tardigrade Dutchman" has 

 made surprisingly few alterations in system since 

 his last appearance before the public, his third 

 volume being, in this particular, on a footing with 

 the first edition of Selby's Illustrations, published 

 in 1825. After what we have said of the previous 

 volumes of the Manuel d? Ornithologie, we consider 

 it needless to enforce on our readers the necessity 

 of procuring the third volume. 



Manual of British Vertebrate Animals : by the 

 Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., Z.S., E.S., 



&c. Smith, Deighton, Stevenson, Cambridge; 

 Longman and Co., London. 1835. 8vo. 13s. pp. 

 559. 



Jenyns's long promised, long looked-for Manual 

 has at length appeared, and now that we at last 

 have it safe on our table, we think it every-way 

 satisfies the high expectations which we had, natu- 

 rally enough, formed of it, from the well-known 

 talents of its Reverend author. Dr. Fleming's Bri- 

 tish Animals, the only English work the student 

 before possessed, as a guide to the whole animal 

 kingdom of Britain, bears no comparison with the 

 work now before us, and indeed it sinks into insig- 

 nificance before the luminous Manual under con- 

 sideration. Fleming's work, never of much use, 



